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Gareth Owen  
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 More options Jan 21 2002, 6:30 am
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From: Gareth Owen <use...@gwowen.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: 21 Jan 2002 11:21:41 +0000
Local: Mon, Jan 21 2002 6:21 am
Subject: The Elements - Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer - The Elements
Music  - Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics - A great many eminent scientists from the Renaissance to today
         Arranged by Tom Lehrer.

        C      
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium
    G7
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
    C
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium
    G                  D7        G
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium.

  G7                             Cm
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
    Bb7                                   Eb
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
    G7                                   Cm
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium
    Ab7                                G7
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium

        C
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
    G7
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
    C             G7          C            G7
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium
    C                 F          C    G7     C
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium

(Isn't that interesting)

        C
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
    G7
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium
    C
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium
   G                        D7         G
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium

    G7                                  Cm
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium
   Bb7                              Eb
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium
    G7                                Cm
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium
    Ab7                                  G7
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium

        C
There's sulphur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
    G7
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
    C               G7           C               G7
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
    C                 F               C         G7      C
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium

C                  G7                C                G7
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard
          C           F               C       G7      C
And there may be many others, but the haven't been discovered.

[And after that dreadful punchline, the big finish (pause at the bar line):]

e -----------|-----
B -----------|-----
G -----------|-----
D -----------|-----
A -3---------|-2h3-
E ---3p2h3h4-|-----

--
Gareth Owen
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids,
 we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening
 to repetitive music."


 
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